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Pandemic, Ecology and Theology

Author : Alexander Hampton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000291383
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Pandemic, Ecology and Theology written by Alexander Hampton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the sequential stages of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic have unfolded, so have its complexities. What initially presented as a health emergency, has revealed itself to be a phenomenon of many facets. It has demonstrated human creativity, the oft neglected presence of nature, and the resilience of communities. Equally, it has exposed deep social inequities, conceptual inadequacies, and structural deficiencies about the way we organize our civilization and our knowledge. As the situation continues to advance, the question is whether the crisis will be grasped as an opportunity to address the deep structural, ecological and social challenges that we brought with us into the second decade of the new millennium. This volume addresses the collective sense that the pandemic is more than a problem to manage our way out of. Rather, it is a moment to consider our broken relationship with the natural world, and our alienation from a deeper sense of purpose and meaning. The contributors, though differing in their diagnoses and recommendations, share the belief that this moment, with its transformative possibility, not be forfeit. Equally, they share the conviction that the chief ground of any such reorientation ineluctably involves our collective engagement with both ecology and theology.

Pandemic, Ecology and Theology

Author : Alexander Hampton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000291421
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Pandemic, Ecology and Theology written by Alexander Hampton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the sequential stages of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic have unfolded, so have its complexities. What initially presented as a health emergency, has revealed itself to be a phenomenon of many facets. It has demonstrated human creativity, the oft neglected presence of nature, and the resilience of communities. Equally, it has exposed deep social inequities, conceptual inadequacies, and structural deficiencies about the way we organize our civilization and our knowledge. As the situation continues to advance, the question is whether the crisis will be grasped as an opportunity to address the deep structural, ecological and social challenges that we brought with us into the second decade of the new millennium. This volume addresses the collective sense that the pandemic is more than a problem to manage our way out of. Rather, it is a moment to consider our broken relationship with the natural world, and our alienation from a deeper sense of purpose and meaning. The contributors, though differing in their diagnoses and recommendations, share the belief that this moment, with its transformative possibility, not be forfeit. Equally, they share the conviction that the chief ground of any such reorientation ineluctably involves our collective engagement with both ecology and theology.

Doing Theology in the New Normal

Author : Jione Havea
Publisher : SCM Press
ISBN 13 : 0334060648
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Doing Theology in the New Normal written by Jione Havea and published by SCM Press. This book was released on 2021-07-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Responses to the recent pandemic have been driven by fear, with social distancing and locking down of communities and borders as the most effective tactics. Out of fear and strategies that separate and isolate, emerges what has been described as the “new normal” (which seems to mutate daily). Truly global in scope, with contributors from across the world, this collection revisits four old responses to crises – assure, protest, trick, amend – to explore if/how those might still be relevant and effective and/or how they might be mutated during and after a global pandemic. Together they paint a grounded, earthy, context-focused picture of what it means to do theology in the new normal.

Varieties of Religion and Ecology

Author : Zainal A. Bagir
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 364391394X
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Varieties of Religion and Ecology written by Zainal A. Bagir and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection presents critical environmental problems with respect to their intersection with culture and religion in Indonesia, such as water resource management, conservation, and political ecology. Scholars from the region ground investigation in ethnographic field studies that represent diverse communities, including Indigenous perspectives from across the archipelago. The discussion is forward-looking and sophisticated, offering a meaningful and critical engagement with the field of religion and ecology. Anna M. Gade, Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, United States.

Pandemic Reflections

Author : Geoffrey Karabin
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1804410497
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Pandemic Reflections written by Geoffrey Karabin and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2023-09-27 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: St Francis of Assisi, one of the most acclaimed and enduring of saints, is particularly significant when reflecting upon the COVID pandemic. Francis lived, and ministered, amid a leprosy pandemic. How he lived in relation to that pandemic makes him a source of insight to as well as a potential critic of contemporary responses to COVID. In turn, one can use COVID to question Francis. Did he exhibit a harmful form of religious devotion, perhaps fanaticism, by exposing himself and others to a lethal pathogen? This edited collection examines a highly visible and impactful religious figure with the intent of bringing him into conversation with one of the defining issues of the early 21st Century.

Ecotheology

Author : Levente Hufnagel
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 1803554355
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Ecotheology written by Levente Hufnagel and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-11 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ecotheology - Sustainability and Religions of the World gives a very interesting overview of the frontiers of scientific research in this important multi- and transdisciplinary area. Its chapters use ecotheological approaches to discuss the multiple aspects of an environmental crisis from almost every segment of our planet. This book will be very useful for everyone – researchers, teachers, students, or others interested in the field – who would like to gain some insights into this aspect of our culture.

Pandemic Theology

Author : Matthew Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Pandemic Theology written by Matthew Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The qualitative study “Pandemic Theology: Listen, Lament, and Labor” is the result of a two-year journey of interviews with healthcare professionals who worked extensively with COVID patients. Although the project was open to all, all but one of the interviewees identified either as some form of Christian and/or as a “spiritual” person. As interviews were gathered, they were coded, or grouped into various expressions, beliefs, and responses, and two main categories emerged: pandemic concerns and pandemic contemplations. Analysis of the interviews showed that sometimes religious beliefs brought peace and comfort, but sometimes religious thoughts, beliefs, and/or voices were seen as a source of concern in and of themselves. Interviewees also saw their faith/theology developing in new or different ways as a result of the pandemic itself. The dissertation offers a brief historical survey of religious voices and expressions from past pandemics, plagues, and epidemics to provide points of comparison with those experienced during the coronavirus pandemic, revealing both points of light to follow and shadows to potentially avoid or speak to as they arise today. The historical survey addresses the common questions or statements raised by the interviewees, such as, How did voices of faith speak to times of plagues and pandemics in the past? and This time feels unique, like these social, cultural, political, and religious phenomena are new to this pandemic. But are they? From a pastoral care perspective, this dissertation addresses the appropriateness and efficacy of speaking in terms of the “wrath of God” as a causal explanation during times of mass suffering and of emphasizing the idea of God’s judgment of sin or rebellion by groups of people, especially in times of calamity. What emerges is a theologically rooted, clinically based best-practices tool for faith-followers and healthcare professionals alike to help answer questions of how to respond, not only in times of pandemic but also at the bedsides of individual patients. --

How Would We Know What God is Up To?

Author : Ernst M. Conradie
Publisher : AOSIS
ISBN 13 : 1779952449
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (799 download)

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Download or read book How Would We Know What God is Up To? written by Ernst M. Conradie and published by AOSIS. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second volume in the series on "An Earthed Faith" will address the following question: "Given what we know about the Anthropocene, how does one even begin to answer the question: What is this God up to, and how ought humans respond?” This is a question of theological method, including the sources and interlocutors of Christian theology, its aims and starting points, social theories shaping it, and presuppositions grounding it. Addressing this question is the classic task of doing contextual theology, namely describing and analysing a particular context and considering how this context may best be addressed theologically and practically. The question highlights the need for prophetic theology to discern the “signs of the time”, to recognise a “moment of truth” (Kairos) and to discern counter-movements of the Spirit. The question of method opens the door to constructive critique of how theology has been done and should be done.

Christianity Across Borders

Author : Gemma Tulud Cruz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000416747
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Christianity Across Borders written by Gemma Tulud Cruz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive exploration of key issues in contemporary global migration and considers the theological implications for Christianity, in general, and for Christian faith and practice in various parts of the world, in particular. Migrant Christians, who make up the majority of believers on the move and in diaspora, play an increasingly vital role in world Christianity today. Drawing on cases from across the globe, Gemma Tulud Cruz considers how Christians are faced with immense gifts and tremendous challenges brought by the ever-increasing presence of migrants in their midst and the conditions that characterize contemporary global migration. Migrant Christians themselves face multiple challenges, which have been made more stark by the coronavirus pandemic. The volume will be relevant to scholars of religion and of migration who are interested in a closer examination of what happens to Christians and Christianity, (faith) communities, and nation-states in the age of migration.

The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment

Author : Alexander J. B. Hampton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108851924
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Christianity and the Environment written by Alexander J. B. Hampton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity has understood the environment as a gift to nurture and steward, a book of divine revelation disclosing the divine mind, a wild garden in need of cultivation and betterment, and as a resource for the creation of a new Eden. This Cambridge Companion details how Christianity, one of the world's most important religions, has shaped one of the existential issues of our age, the environment. Engaging with contemporary issues, including gender, traditional knowledge, and enchantment, it brings together the work of international scholars on the subject of Christianity and the Environment from a diversity of fields. Together, their work offers a comprehensive guide to the complex relationship between Christianity and the environment that moves beyond disciplinary boundaries. To do this, the volume explains the key concepts concerning Christianity and the environment, outlines the historical development of this relationship from antiquity to the present, and explores important contemporary issues.

Eco-Theology

Author : Hans Günter Heimbrock
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
ISBN 13 : 9783506760364
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Eco-Theology written by Hans Günter Heimbrock and published by Brill Schoningh. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume gives thankful resonance to Prof. Sigurd Bergmann, Lund, on the occasion of his 65th birthday. With its 14 contributions it intends to honor Sigurd Bergmann for all his academic and personal efforts in the areas of critical thinking, responsible ethics, and ingenious spirituality in service of the earth as protected habitat. The authors come from Sweden, Finland, Norway, Germany, Montenegro, the UK, South Africa, and Indonesia. The contributions cover a wide range of issues related to eco-theology, namely aesthetics, moral philosophy, theology, history of religion, philosophy of education, history of literature, political theory, and economics.

All Creation Groans

Author : Daniel W. O'Neill
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725290111
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book All Creation Groans written by Daniel W. O'Neill and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a suffering world reeling from global pandemics and health disparities, it is high time to think theologically about the devastating experience of disease, and to address our God-inspired responsibility to understand its origins and engage in its management. In a fragmented world, we need a unifying and integrated perspective on people in communities embedded in a fractured ecology. In an academic world blind to the spiritual world and imbalanced toward technical solutions, the global church must articulate a contemporary metanarrative that is moral, practical, and deeply transformational. All Creation Groans brings together multiple perspectives for a compelling global-health approach to the pathologies of the world as a part of the missio Dei. The authors paint a unifying perspective on God’s healing intentions in creation, redemption, and consummation, and the opposing nature-corrupting effects of the rebellion of created moral agents. It is a fresh call for the global church to engage in aligning with God’s healing action for eternally sustainable global health.

Masking in Pandemic U.S.

Author : Urmila Mohan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000774872
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Masking in Pandemic U.S. written by Urmila Mohan and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans responded to this illness as unique subjects navigating the flux of social and corporeal boundaries, supporting certain beliefs and acting to shape them as compelling realities. Debates over health and safety mandates indicated that responses were fractured with varied subjectivities in play—people lived in different worlds and bodies were central in conflicts over breathing, masking and social distancing. Contrasting approaches to practices marked the limits and possibilities of imaginaries, signaling differences and similarities between groups, and how actions could be passageways between people and possibilities. During a time of uncertainty and loss, the "efficacious intimacy" of bodies and materials embedded beliefs, values, and emotions of care in mask sewing and usage. By exploring these practices, the author reflects on how American subjects became relational selves and sustained response-able communities, helping people protect each other from mutating viruses as well as moving forward in a shifting terrain of intimacy and distance, connection, and containment.

Doing Theology in Pandemics

Author : Zachary Moon
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666709905
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book Doing Theology in Pandemics written by Zachary Moon and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The COVID-19 era will be remembered not only for the tragic global public health crisis, but also for the continued police violence against persons of color, the courageous activism that continues to rise up to confront racialized violence in all its forms, and the perpetuation of white nationalist rhetoric from the highest government elected offices. Everywhere we look, we find trauma and pain, and we find resilience and resolve. This volume, featuring leading theological scholars and religious leaders, is rich in analysis of the plagues we are facing and equally rich in the resources, practices, and inspirations that will carry our efforts to build a more just world.

Political Theology on Edge

Author : Clayton Crockett
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823298132
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Political Theology on Edge written by Clayton Crockett and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Political Theology on Edge, the discourse of political theology is seen as situated on an edge—that is, on the edge of a world that is grappling with global warming, a brutal form of neoliberal capitalism, protests against racism and police brutality, and the COVID-19 pandemic. This edge is also a form of eschatology that forces us to imagine new ways of being religious and political in our cohabitation of a fragile and shared planet. Each of the essays in this volume attends to how climate change and our ecological crises intersect and interact with more traditional themes of political theology. While the tradition of political theology is often associated with philosophical responses to the work of Carl Schmitt—and the critical attempts to disengage religion from his rightwing politics—the contributors to this volume are informed by Schmitt but not limited to his perspectives. They engage and transform political theology from the standpoint of climate change, the politics of race, and non-Christian political theologies including Islam and Sikhism. Important themes include the Anthropocene, ecology, capitalism, sovereignty, Black Lives Matter, affect theory, continental philosophy, destruction, and suicide. This book features world renowned scholars and emerging voices that together open up the tradition of political theology to new ideas and new ways of thinking. Contributors: Gil Anidjar, Balbinder Singh Bhogal, J. Kameron Carter, William E. Connolly, Kelly Brown Douglas, Seth Gaiters, Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Winfred Goodwin, Lawrence Hillis, Mehmet Karabela, Michael Northcott, Austin Roberts, Noëlle Vahanian, Larry L. Welborn

World Christianity and Ecological Theologies

Author : Raimundo C. Barreto
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book World Christianity and Ecological Theologies written by Raimundo C. Barreto and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2024-10-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: World Christianity and Ecological Theologies brings attention to the intersection of religion and ecology as they have developed, especially in the Global South, highlighting the kinds of ecological theologies that have emerged in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Pacific. For this volume, two pioneering scholars, Latin American ecofeminist liberation theologian Ivone Gebara and German political theologian Jürgen Moltmann--who have both contributed distinctively to the development of ecological theologies globally--provide two anchor essays on the trajectories and roles of ecological theologies. The gradual process of restructuring and refining their respective theologies led Gebara and Moltmann to explore multiple contexts, including political and militant debates, male-female theologian interactions, and North/South, East/West cross-cultural relationships. This volume builds on this dialogical dynamic present in Gebara's and Moltmann's theological trajectories, and invites scholars in religious studies and theology from different continents and contexts to continue this North-South dialogue on environmental ethics, political ecology, and ecofeminism. Through the global pandemic, the connection between environmental rapacity, religion, and political interests has once again called scholarly attention to the important conversation on public religion and global environment-related issues. On the one hand, more scholars of religion engaging with ecological issues are using the language and concepts of scholars from the Global South, adopting such terms as "coloniality/decoloniality" to frame their critical analysis. Acknowledging a deficit among scholars of World Christianity in addressing environmental concerns and limited language to frame those concerns in the field, this aims to bring the fields of study that became known as "World Christianity" and "Religion and Ecology" into a sustained conversation, with the goal of expanding the theoretical horizons of both fields. World Christianity and Ecological Theologies builds on the understanding that Christianity in the Global South emerges from a social matrix conditioned culturally and linguistically by pre-existing religions. It reiterates that all Christian theologies are contextual, as they shape and are shaped by specific historical and cultural circumstances. It aims at showcasing the ways in which the intersection of religion and ecology is approached by scholars in religious studies and theology in the Global South or by those in conversation with them in the Global North, pointing to what can be generated if these bodies of scholarship are engaged as dialogue partners to investigate new patterns of religious environmentalism.

Mangrove Tiger

Author : Jayanta Kumar Mallick
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1804412716
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Mangrove Tiger written by Jayanta Kumar Mallick and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2023-10-25 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains well-researched (literature review/field surveys) and personal experience on the origin and adaptation of Bengal tiger (Panthera tigris tigris), the only large carnivore species inhabiting the mangrove forests across the world. The Bengal tiger population in this mangrove habitat is isolated from other mainland populations and exhibits certain distinctive morphological adaptations. Unlike the mainlanders, these islanders are much smaller (suggesting insular dwarfism), more muscular with leaner frame and lesser body mass (±100 kg). The stress factor associated with changes in their natural habitat and the availability of the smaller prey species is often related to such phenomenon. Apart from the long-stretch swimming, the tiger has adapted to changed food habits and become omnivore. Loss and degradation of the mangrove habitat has caused severe decline of the tiger population. Tiger conservation within and beyond the protected areas is based on the ethical issues- “biodiversity, aesthetic values and integrity” as well as management of the mangrove ecosystem challenged by development works and anthropogenic activities. A published book highlighting the updated information on the migratory behaviour, morphological and behavioural adaptations of the Bengal tiger in the mangrove eco-system is not readily available. This monograph is ideal for researchers, postgraduate and graduate students in zoology, botany, ecology and conservation. This comprehensive treatise will also serve professionals, such as foresters, environmentalists, conservationists, resource managers, planners, government agencies, academic institutions, NGOs and naturalists.